com.sun.management.jmxremote.port - JMX Agent for Remote Connection

This section provides a tutorial example on how to turn on the out-of-the-box JMX agent on Sun JVM for monitoring tool 'jconsole' to connect from remote machines.

If you want to run 'jconsole' on a remote machine to monitor a Java application, you need to launch the JVM with the default JMX agent turned on using this system property: "com.sun.management.jmxremote.port=<portNum>"

Here is what I did to run my PrimeNumberSeeker.java with the default JMX agent for remote monitoring connections:

1. To run this program with the out-of-the-box JMX agent turned on, I used the following commands:

herong> java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6789 \
   PrimeNumberSeeker

Error: Password file not found: C:\Progra~1\java\jdk-10.0.1\conf
   \managememote.password
jdk.internal.agent.AgentConfigurationError
   at jdk.management.agent/sun.management.jmxremote
      .ConnectorBootstkPasswordFile(ConnectorBootstrap.java:572)
   at jdk.management.agent/sun.management.jmxremote
      .ConnectorBootsttRemoteConnectorServer(ConnectorBootstrap.java:436)
   at jdk.management.agent/jdk.internal.agent.Agent.startAgent(Agen50)
   at jdk.management.agent/jdk.internal.agent.Agent.startAgent(Agen21)

2. I got this error because the remote JMX agent requires a password file to only give permissions to authorized remote connections. For testing purpose, I used this system property: "com.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false" to turn off the authentication function:

herong> java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6789 \
   -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \
   PrimeNumberSeeker

Period, Current int, # primes
1, 2, 0
2, 10, 4
...

3. I tried to run "jconsole localhost:6789" to connect to this JMX agent remotely. But JConsole gives you a warning message: "Secure connection failed. Retry insecurely? - The connection to localhost:6789 could not be made using SSL. Would you like to try without SSL?" as shown below:

jconsole Connection Failed
jconsole Connection Failed

4. We are getting this warning message because the remote JMX agent is asking for a SSL connection by default. For testing purpose, I used this system property: "com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false" to turn off the SSL function:

herong> java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6789 \
   -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \
   -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
   PrimeNumberSeeker

Period, Current int, # primes
1, 2, 0
2, 10, 4
...

Now I am ready run "jconsole" to connect to this JMX agent remotely. See the next section for more tutorial examples.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Java Tools Terminology

 Java Tools Included in JDK

 javac - The Java Program Compiler

 java - The Java Program Launcher

 jar - The JAR File Tool

 jlink - The JRE Linker

 jmod - The JMOD File Tool

 jimage - The JIMAGE File Tool

 jpackage - Binary Package Builder

 javadoc - The Java Document Generator

 jdeps - The Java Class Dependency Analyzer

 jdeprscan - The Java Deprecated API Scanner

 jdb - The Java Debugger

 jcmd - The JVM Diagnostic Tool

jconsole - Java Monitoring and Management Console

 JMX Technology and jconsole Tool

 jconsole - Command Options and Connection Window

 com.sun.management.jmxremote - JMX Agent for Local Connection

 jconsole - Connecting to a Local JMX Agent

com.sun.management.jmxremote.port - JMX Agent for Remote Connection

 jconsole - Connecting to a Remote JMX Agent

 jstat - JVM Statistics Monitoring Tool

 JVM Troubleshooting Tools

 jhsdb - The Java HotSpot Debugger

 jvisualvm (Java VisualVM) - JVM Visual Tool

 jmc - Java Mission Control

 javap - The Java Class File Disassembler

 keytool - Public Key Certificate Tool

 jarsigner - JAR File Signer

 jshell - Java Language Shell

 jrunscript - Script Code Shell

 Miscellaneous Tools

 native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Encoding Converter

 JAB (Java Access Bridge) for Windows

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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